Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GREAT CATALAN CELLIST PABLO CASALS is rightly credited with elevating the cello to its royal status as a solo instrument, so it is only fitting that Pearl records pays him homage by beginning its six-CD set, The Recorded Cello: The History of the Cello on Record, with his evocative 1915 performance of Schumann's Traumerei. Among the 74 other masters represented here are Enrico Mainardi, whose version of Dvorak's Concerto in B minor is stately and deeply hued; and Gregor Piatigorsky, playing variations on Paganini with heart- skipping joy. All the tracks demonstrate the delicate timbres and subtle...
Stipe also has fun in the straight-forward "Man on the Moon," a song about Andy Kaufman traipsing around in heaven, Twangs of R.E.M.'s country roots combine with Mike Mills' cool harmonies, Stipe's Elvis impersonation and a funky guitar solo from peter Buck to produce a catchy little tune...
Stipe also has fun in the straight-forward "man on the Moon," a song about Andy Kaufman traipsing around in heaven. Twangs of R.E.M.'s country roots combine with Mike Mills' cool harmonies, Stipe's Elvis impersonation and a funky guitar solo from Peter Buck to produce a catchy little tune...
...rocker Peter Gabriel, whose new album Us on come out on Tuesday, followed all three trends. Gabriel's group Genesis joined solid musicianship to an arty attitude and used both to produce a string of murky, meandering albums. Clinging to rock's new-wave margins, Gabriel subsequently released three solo albums, all self-titled, and then a fourth, named Security. He filled all four with rock philosophy and single-issue politics...
...despite the pretense, Gabriel's early solo songs were brilliant. "Humdrum" is set to accompany Gabriel's aesthetically pleasant, if vague, worldview: "As a bull, so a dove; as below, so above." His "Family Snapshot" painted a sympathetic musical picture of a Lee Harvey Oswald so tormented by his upbringing that he had to shoot a president...